Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wears on, instances of man's, and even nature's ingratitude multiply. Gregg lures a diseased cat into the poorhouse grounds, and Prefect Conner orders it shot, increasing the murmurings against him. A truck loaded with Pepsi-Cola rams through a section of the compound's wall. Rain drives the inmates into the sitting room, where they cackle like a Greek chorus while Hook and Conner debate the merits of God v. scientific rationalism...
When Beth Sumner goes to India from the U.S. to stay with her sister, who is married to an American medical missionary, she walks right into an East-West fracas. Beth finds the gate to the mission compound barred by wire and empty oil drums, with Indian pickets waving slogans -MISSIONARIES GO HOME. Her sister and brother-in-law tell the story behind the commotion. Eight years before, they adopted an unwanted, illegitimate Indian infant and raised him as one of their own family. Now the Indian father, a merchant, is demanding him back, and missionaries and merchants are grappling...
Grimly the three men in the Dutch compound now stoke their own furnace and chauffeur their limousines. The diplomats' ladies now do their own scrubbing, cooking and marketing. At first the Pakistani embassy gallantly offered to drive the Dutch children to the foreign colony's school, but after taking the youngsters once, retracted the offer lest it lose its own Chinese drivers. At another embassy a Chinese cook refused to bake a supply of cookies after he learned that a Dutchman was coming to dinner. Fearing that they too might get the treatment, foreign diplomats now tend...
...Plume de Ma Tante (written by Robert Dhery; music by Gerard Calvi) speaks a kind of compound-fractured English. But in all other respects it is as engagingly French as it is abundantly funny...
...Boston. Here perhaps the most articulate of local commentators is Louis Lyons. "Curleyism," he said a week ago, "surrounded Boston like a moat for a generation, putting a chasm between city and suburbs with the most bitter refusal to entertain any cooperation with the city. It was a compound tragedy of Boston that it was saddled with Curleyism in the period of its most severe economic pinch, as capital of the region that saw its major industries, textiles and shoes, sliding away. Newer cities still expanding every decade could absorb the graft and woeful inefficiency of city machine patronage...